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WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2007 – Deployed servicemembers worldwide have been receiving a steady stream of care packages, e-mail and “snail mail” since 2004 from a group of “Proud Patriots” in Arizona. Proud Patriots, a troop-support group, provides morale and material support to America’s deployed military personnel worldwide through six annual care-package campaigns primarily centered on holidays, Joe Jenkins, the organization’s president, said. “We send care packages to Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Korea, Germany, Italy and Africa.” With three shipping hubs -- in Virginia, Missouri and Arizona -- the group ships packages during its six holiday-centered campaigns. “Our founder was contacted...

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2006 – Intelligence reforms under way, both within the Defense Department and at the national level, are critical to protecting the U.S. and other free nations in a security environment "that's full of surprises," DoD's top intelligence adviser told reporters yesterday. "Surprise" has become "a guiding watchword" in how DoD members think, plan, prepare and operate, Stephen A. Cambone, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said during a media roundtable at the Pentagon. This environment demands the best, most responsive intelligence operation possible that looks toward future threats while putting actionable intelligence into warfighters' hands today, he said....